On November 30, 2006 Wiesel received an honorary knighthood in London in recognition of his work toward raising Holocaust education in the United Kingdom.
In 2007 the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity issued a letter condemning Armenian genocide denial that was signed by 53 Nobel laureates including Wiesel.
Wiesel wrote over 50 books both fiction and non-fiction and won many literary prizes.
Wiesel's writing is considered among the most important in Holocaust literature.
historians credit Wiesel with giving the term 'Holocaust' its present meaning.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for speaking out against violence, repression, and racism.
He has received many other prizes and honors for his work, including the Congressional Gold Medal in 1985, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1996.
Wiesel has published two volumes of his memories.
The first, All Rivers Run to the Sea, was published in 1994 and covered his life up to the year 1969 while the second, titled And the Sea is Never Full and published in 1999, covered 1969 to 1999. Wiesel and his wife, Marion, started the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.
He served as chairman for the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust (later renamed US holocaust memorial council) from 1978 to 1986.
Wiesel has become a popular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust.
He also led a commission organized by the Romanian government to research and write a report, released in 2004, on the true history of the Holocaust in Romania.
and the involvement of the Romanian wartime regime in atrocities against Jews and other groups, including the Roma.
The Romanian government accepted the findings in the report and committed to implementing the commission's recommendations for educating the public on the history of the Holocaust in Romania.
The commission, formally called the International Commission for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, came to be called the Wiesel `commission in honor of his leadership.
Wiesel is the honorary chair of the Habonim Dror Camp Miriam Campership and Building Fund, and a member of the International Council of the New York–based Human Rights Foundation.
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father, Shlomo, in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of the Second World War.
In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, described as devastating in its simplicity, Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own increasing disgust with humanity.
Elie Wiesel addresses the Days of Remembrancer ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington D.C., saying "How does one mourn for six million people who died? How many candles does one light? How many prayers does one recite? Do we know how to remember the victims, their solitude, their helplessness? They left us without a trace, and we are their trace."
The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity's mission is to advance the cause of human rights and peace throughout the world by creating a new forum for the discussion of urgent ethical issues confronting humanity.
Elie has written about his horrifying Holocaust experiences in a way that is very educational and beneficial to our society.
Wiesel wrote about the hardships in order to prevent such a massacre, which singled out minorities for systematic persecution, to never happen again.
Wiesel has written many books about the events that occurred in a way that makes you actually feel like you are right there with him.
He has said that he "speaks out on behalf of Holocaust victims because he feels it is the right thing to do so that young people can work toward a more humane world--a world in which compassion for those from cultures other than their own is a major priority."
He has dedicated his life to being a great humanitarian.
He teaches us to never forget our past and the horrible experience that he and millions of other individuals endured during the Holocaust.
He served as chairman of "The President's Commission on the Holocaust."
In 1999, Wiesel gave a speech entitled, "The Perils of Indifference."
Wiesel agreed to speak...with students, educators, community leaders, clergy and a paying crowd of 2,000 at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center [Charlotte, N.C.].
In the Nazi death camps Wiesel was prisoner A-7713.
The number is still tattooed on his arm.
He swore, first, that he would never let the world forget the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis--a pledge that led to 'Night,' his 1958 memoir.
And because Wiesel was devastated by the world's indifference to the genocide of Jews during World War II, he also promised himself that as an adult, he would never be silent 'whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.'"
Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, Humanities professor and recipient of 75 honorary degrees and many international writing awards
Wiesel's journey into the heart of darkness began in the spring of 1944, when, as a boy of fifteen, he was deported to the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
Following his liberation from Buchenwald in April 1945, he vowed not to speak of his experiences for ten years.
By his silence, he came to believe that he was condemning Holocaust victims to a second death.
He affirmed that a confrontation with reality, no matter how painful, must be initiated in order to prevent these events from ever happening again; therefore, La Nuit ( Night ), was written to serve as a reminder of this monstrous period in human history."
"At age 15, Elie Wiesel imagined that his faith was dead--incinerated with the 6 million Jewish lives lost in the Holocaust.
Wiesel has lived long enough to reclaim his faith."
Wiesel explains his doubt in and anger toward God during the Holocaust, and discusses his return to faith later in life. His memoir "Night" is considered.
Eli is one of the world's most important figures and writers.
Elie Wiesel helped define the 20th century.
He continues his defining moments in The Time of the Uproot.
Founding chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.
Wiesel began writing to bear witness to the Holocaust and to inspire others to write their stories.
For years, he has defended the importance of memory against those who deny aspects of the Holocaust.
Half a century after its publication, 'Night,' which details [Wiesel's] months in Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a young teenager, continues to appear on bestseller lists."
In this profile, Wiesel discusses his life, literary career and the inspiration for his 49th book, 2009's "A Mad Desire to Dance."
No writer has revisited the same territory with as much sense of grim purpose as Elie Wiesel has the Holocaust.
"The Time of the Uprooted," gives voice to his struggle to do justice to the remembrance of the Holocaust.
Wiesel lost his parents in his early childhood and escaped to France where he studied literature, philosophy, and psychology at the Sorbonne.
Wiesel emerged as a noted journalist and eventually settled in America. Catholic writer Francois Mauriac successfully persuaded Wiesel to write his experiences of the "Holocaust" which he did in his memoir "Night".
His literary excellence is often overshadowed by his role of a Holocaust testimony.
In his later life, Wiesel emerged as a political activist and humanitarian.
After the liberation of the camps in April 1945, Wiesel spent a few years in a French orphanage where he was reunited with his older sisters, Hilda and Bea.
Like many survivors, Wiesel could not find the words to describe his experiences and even after ten years of the war, Wiesel refused to write about or discuss his experiences during the Holocaust.
He gradually became involved in journalistic work with the French newspaper L'arche.
He wrote for Israeli and French newspapers, including Tsien in Kamf.
It was on the urging of Catholic writer Francois Mauriac, the 1952 Nobel Laureate in Literature, that Elie wrote about his experiences in the death camps.
Unable to renew the French documents, which had allowed him to travel as a "stateless" person, Elie successfully applied for American citizenship.
Elie continued to live in New York as a feature writer for a Yiddish-language newspaper called “The Jewish Daily Forward”.
In the US, Wiesel wrote over forty books, including both fiction and non-fiction, and won many literary prizes.
In 1965, Elie first traveled to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and reported on his travels in The Jews of Silence.
He has continued to plead on the behalf of oppressed people in the Soviet Union, South Africa, Vietnam, Biafra, and Bangladesh.
Elie Wiesel also raised concern for the victims of the Kurds and Darfur, Sudan. In September 2006, Wiesel appeared before the United Nations Security Council with actor George Clooney to call attention to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
The purpose was to research and write a report on the involvement of the Romanian wartime regime in atrocities against Jews and other groups during the Holocaust.
The government appointed Elie Wiesel as its honorary chairman.
The International Commission for the Study of the Holocaust released its report in 2004 and the Romanian government reportedly accepted the findings of the report.
Teaching has always been central to Elie Wiesel’s work. Since 1976, he has been the Professor of Humanities at Boston University.
Wiesel has also been a visiting scholar at the Yale University.
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